“I didn’t sign up for this.”
Have you ever said that about your job, your life, your family? I
said this in the last few months, maybe more than I’d like to admit.
As you know, Cru changed it’s name over a year ago. However, the name change is just one facet of how we want to live out our values of Faith, Growth, and Fruitfulness. We are also looking at our strategies, our internal systems, structures and how we work together with the body of Christ to reach the world with the gospel.
While I’m excited about the direction we are headed and our willingness to look at how we do everything, change doesn’t happen without some pain.
One area we recently began addressing is the whole area of digital strategies and technology. In April we reorganized four of the teams working in these areas under one team. Part of that process required that we let go 14 of our salaried staff. I was responsible for carrying that out and it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. I vote on not doing it again!
On the positive side, I am able to be a part of the transition team to establish this new team and set our priorities to serve and resource the field staff and volunteers. There is a building excitement about this change and a hope we’ll be more effective at involving others in the mission.
Technology supports everything that makes a ministry like Cru function: donations, email, websites, financial services...it is integral to reaching the world for Christ today. The fact that we are making significant efforts to be as effective as possible with that technology is encouraging.
Thank you for being a part of our team so we can be a part of changes like this.
With love and thanks,
